Whip-socket



(No Model.)

G. P. ROSE.

WHIP SOCKET. No. 411,904. Patented Oct. 1, 1889.

27732265560. lm enior.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE P. ROSE, OF FENTON, MICHIGAN.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,904, dated October1, 1889. Application filed March 22, 1888. Serial No. 263,164. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE P. ROSE, of Fenton, Genesee county, State ofMichigan, have invented a new and useful Whip-Socket, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of Whipsockets which have curvedfronts and a central bearing.

The object of the invention is to construct a whip-socket having alongitudinally-curved front provided with lugs for attaching it to thevehicle or Whatever implement or device it is attached to and across-piece or plate at the back, thus forming an upper and lowerbearing in the front for the whip-stock to rest against and a thirdcentral hearing at the back.

This whip-socket is more especially adapted for use on road-carts,farm-wagons, agricultural implements, and such other devices andmachines as require a very simple and cheap yet effectual whip-socket.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a frontelevation; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the socket with a vehicledash invertical section; Fig. 3, a rear elevation; and Fig. 4 is a perspectiveof lettered details in Fig.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, A is thelongitudinally-curved front piece of the socket, provided with lugs e efor attaching it to the dash D or to any other part of whateverimplementor device to which it is desired to attach it. The back plate B ispreferably made separate from the front piece and is attached thereto bysuit-able means transversely at the back and verti' cally central, ornearly so, to form a rear bearing for the Whip-stock, Fig. 2, saidwhipstock having abearin g against the front piece A at the upper andlower end thereof.

As here shown, the back plate B is provided with a hole in each end, andsaid holes receive the pins t' i on thenfront piece near the lugs e 6,Figs. 3 and 4. These pins are clinched with a clinching-hammer, so as tohold the back plate in place across the space in the front pieceoccupied by the Whip-stock.

Screws or any other suitable means maybe employed for attaching theseparable back plate to the front piece, or they may be integral. Havingthus described the invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A whip-socket comprising a curved front plate having side lugs forattachment and a cross-bar extending across the rear portion of saidfront plate and connected to said front plate at about the center orfulcrum-point, substantially as described.

2. A whip-socket comprising a curved front plate having side lugs forattachment and a cross-bar extending across the rear portion of saidfront plate and connected thereto at about the center or fulcrum-pointby rivets cast on the front plate and headed over the cross-bar,substantially as described.

GEORGE P. ROSE.

Vitnesses:

RICHD. L. OROWDER, M. HENRY LANE.

